A Practical Utopia for Creatives

A Practical Utopia for Creatives

I became obsessed with the NBC tv show, The Good Place, last winter. Something like … 47 people had emphatically recommended it; so, I binged it to keep my sanity while riding my bike on its trainer in the depths of last winter. This network TV romp makes ethics,...

The Light I’m Not Following

Following the Light is a series of blogs that point to the brights spots where I see renewal and rebirth in the world of religion and spirituality. The series will continue through the Christian season of Epiphany. I just wish Ken Ham and Bill Nye could have sat down...
Following the Light: Strange Stars

Following the Light: Strange Stars

Adapted from a sermon I didn’t get to preach on Matthew 2: 1-12 because of winter weather on Jan. 5, 2014. It will also serve as the beginning on my forthcoming blog series, Following the Light …They were just doing their job.Every day they stared at the stars,...
Tattoos: Rituals of Control?

Tattoos: Rituals of Control?

“Are you Nicole?” Josh Drew, my tattoo artist said as I walked through the door of Lasting Impressions, the Des Moines, IA tattoo shop that would become my home for the next several hours. My stomach was doing slightly nervous flip flops even as I walked breezily...